Dozens of dirty diesels are doing daily damage to our health and wealth!

I refer to the old diesel buses, circling our city for 14 hours every day with very few passengers. Diesel fumes are bad for health and bus Losses are now $80 million plus.

The NZTA and BOP Regional Council (read you and I) pay for the ‘Empty Bus Co'. I think it is disgraceful that the regional council, which is supposed to protect the environment, causes this pollution.

Now they want us to ride our bikes and really get a lungful. The bus experiment is a health and financial failure and must be stopped immediately. If a bus service is viable, private enterprise will operate it.

K Evans, Tauranga.